News of the Week: Christmas Trees, Cassette Tapes, and Cookies Shaped Like Both
Christmas candy wars, cassette tapes making a comeback, National Cookie Day recipes, and more in this week’s pop culture roundup.
Christmas candy wars, cassette tapes making a comeback, National Cookie Day recipes, and more in this week’s pop culture roundup.
From 1907 to 1943, J.C. Leyendecker’s Baby New Year covers told the history of a nation.
An off-color and offhanded remark about Japanese immigrants from a World War I veteran foreshadowed the internment of thousands of U.S. citizens.
A science fiction writer lays out a suspiciously accurate plan of how the Navy would fight Japan two years before the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
When I’m interviewed as the Post’s archives director, I often find myself addressing the misconception that the magazine was a newsmagazine. Actually, it was more of a general interest magazine that occasionally ran feature stories on current events. It didn’t run headlines, and it printed very few photographs compared to, say, Life magazine. And because […]
I’m interested in seeing how America’s media covers the 75th anniversary of World War II in the coming weeks. Or if they cover it. In the U.S., we tend to think of the war as starting on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. But on that day […]
For the vast mass of the American people, getting out of military entanglements is now the expectation rather than some vague hope.
A national hero in the ’20s, the aviator became a pariah in the ’30s for his Nazi sympathies. As WWII loomed, the U.S. Army Air Forces needed his expertise. But could he be trusted?
Every decade another prognosticator warns that our best days are behind us. Here’s why such predictions are wrong.
From its inception under Herbert O. Yardley to its role in the Cold War to Edward Snowden, the NSA has a long history of surveillance, scandal, and scrutiny.
The big story of 1963 was civil rights, and the challenges to Brown v. Board of Education.
Commenting on this article, Mary A. Berger said, “We need to keep being reminded of the way things were a few years back, as well as the horror of more recent catastrophes . It’s amazing how the American spirit seems to gain strength after such terrible events. As the song says . . . ‘proud […]
Guadalcanal held nothing but “mud, coconuts, and malaria mosquitoes” and a precious airfield. Here, the U.S. finally regained the offensive in the Pacific War.
When TV commercials drive you around the bend, you may be tempted to take a lesson from Elvis.
Cardinals’ Hall of Famer Stan Musial passes away at age 92. We remember both the professional and personal side of this beloved baseball player.
He was belittled for his family connections, his good looks, his privileged upbringing, and, of course, for several occasions of bad judgment as an adult. Even when it wasn’t convenient or politically correct, he stayed committed to an idea of humanitarian democracy.